Bush Claims He Is READING BOOKS On His Current Vacation ---->>>

More lies from BushCO. Do they think we are stupid?

And, "Imperial Grunts"????

I know 8-yr old kids who play Halo that would make a better president.

Don't be so touchy. I was making a comment about an almost 60 year old guy that has the problems of the world to solve and he is not improving his mind by reading but playing a video game. That is not to say anything against video games but against those who play them rather than setting their priorities straight.

And I agree about 8 year olds being better presidents than the current anointed one.

probably has a better understanding of what the military should and should not be used for, and what it can and cannot do than Bush will ever have.

c'mon!

Run Dick Run!

LETS GO RANGERS!

I was there last night a lot later than I thought we'd be, but when I got home last night and saw the score, I considered myself thankful....

Tomorrow night though, on the Isle. I want fishsticks!!!!!!

to end the year would be nice. Im going on 1/5 against Philly. MSG should be rocking for that one.

They score a lot of goals, even when the opposing goalie isn't helping out. Isles took a big loss the other night too- lots of stupid stupid penalties.

Should be fun to watch the Rangers-Isles game.

Little side story- my son was born the week the Rangers won the Cup in 1994. I had a scheduled C-section (they thought he was going to about 10 pounds and I'm 5 feet tall and had a prior emergency C.), on June 9. The Rangers could have won the Cup that night and we decided that since we had to name with an "R" for my husband's grandfather, if they Rangers won the Cup the day he was born, we'd give him the middle name "Ranger". They lost of course, and the next game too, setting up the dramatic 7th game against the Canucks the following Tuesday night in NY. Which gave me the opportunity to be home to see the game on T.V. and gave my son the middle name "Ross".

Good one, OPERATIONMINDCRIME........... and your post about says it all, LOLOLOL.

1984 and my personal favorite: Brave New World

Knowing full well that he does not read, I might as well throw in Sidartha, why not...

Junior High level.

Good one!!;)

Yeah, right--only if breaking out the Crayolas and coloring books counts as "reading."


Edit: Ha! Great minds think alike, eh? :P

Maybe audio books. Abridged version only.

In all fairness, he does have a serious learning disability that was not adequately addressed during his formal education.

However, there is no excuse for his attitude and his sheer laziness.

so they can make it look all spontaneous.
Look out for it, y'all- big headline: Bush read and then quoted something all by himself.
it's so fucking sad he's using PR acams to try and show he's not an idiot, or a puppet.

Every time Stupidhead goes off for another well-earned month or two off, the White House PR machine whirs into action to tell us all what he's allegedly reading. Bush has been photographed with copies of McCullough's biography of John Adams, Bernie Goldberg's incoherent screed against the liberal media, and others. He's never read any of them, but by some unspoken agreement, the bulldogs of our national press decline to ask him anything about any of those books because they're in on the scam that purports that Stupidhead is a history buff and an avid reader.

In about four years, we'll begin seeing the first books by today's supine correspondents, detailing in breathless detail all the little inside facts they knew but which never quite seemed to make it into their reportage. Of course, they'll reap a nice windfall in a few years by writing all the stories and all the columns they should be writing now, but they're too preoccupied writing claptrap like this story right now.

Pop quiz, anyone?

I'd send a shiny nickel to the reporter who asked Stupidhead what he thought of Kurlansky's book. Just that, no first name of the author, no title to tip him off. Just what he got from reading Kurlansky's book. Hook a generator up to his coke jaw, and we could power the Northeast this winter.

teach him how to read. Maybe someone should send him a book on the Constitution, so he knows what's in it.

... I'd believe US troops actually found WMDs in Iraq before I'd believe Bush is capable of, or inclined to, READ A BOOK!

... the eight years he served in the White House. He is remembered for an incredible supply of energy, which did not wane after he left the Washington. Rather, he went on a safari in Africa in which he killed 512 animals. This book chronicles that event, as well as his re-entry into American politics up to his death in 1919."


http://www.westonschools.org/schools/hs/lib/US_HistorySummer_05.htm


So yeah, he'll use it in the State of the Union, jeeze talk about tipping your hand.
Anyone wanna bet he's not going to compare himself to Teddy?

...corpus requirement in our law. Just because Lincoln did something in a crisis of actual war doesn't mean Bush can do it legally in the crisis of a made up one! The deaths in this war are real; the reasons for it were not.

Lincoln taking action to preserve the Union cannot be compared to Bush taking action to preserve his presidency.

Somebody stop this man from reading before he gets to Orwell's "1984"!

"He's my kind of fella."

PANGLOSSIAN
A person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances.

Or, to put it in the words of the optimistic Dr Pangloss, the tutor and philosopher in Voltaire’s Candide (1759), “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”. Most of us will be as profoundly sceptical of this philosophy as Voltaire intended us to be, since Dr Pangloss was old, pedantic and deluded, maintaining his misguided beliefs even after experiencing great suffering. His name is one clue to Voltaire’s view of the old man, since it comes from Greek pan, all, and glossa, tongue or language, so suggesting glibness and talkativeness. Writers have since made several compounds out of his name, such as Panglossic and Panglossism, but the adjective Panglossian is by far the most common and is frequently found even today, as here in the Daily Telegraph in July 2004: “Most management-speak is, as Schrijvers points out, Panglossian balderdash designed to lull the weak and credulous—the feeble-minded, the nice—into a position of supine docility.”

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pan4.htm

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Panglossian

Main Entry: Pan·gloss·ian
Pronunciation: pan-'glä-sE-&n, pa-, -'glo-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Pangloss, optimistic tutor in Voltaire's Candide (1759)
: marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/panglossian

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I bet Kim Jung Ill WISHES he could by handjob propaganda like this!

:rofl:

That's just too funny!

Q: I can see at the next press conference, so Mr. President, which books are you currently reading and what do you think of them?

A: I, uh, well you see...That's classified information. But you can ask Scott McClellan for me and he'll tell you what I think.

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Seriously, I went to Amazon.com and looked at the editorial review for Imperial Grunts : The American Military on the Ground from The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com

"If Kaplan's history is sometimes shaky, though, his contemporary sociology is not. American soldiers are, as he insists, predominantly working- or lower-middle-class folk, the products (with the exception of West Point and Annapolis) of state schools and part-time degree programs. He describes the culture of guns and NASCAR, chewing tobacco and Budweiser, and writes affectionately of the "oldest, simplest virtues: unblinking courage and straightforwardness, which was both revealed and obscured by the profane language they used." More than once, he comments on the power of evangelical Christianity in the American officer corps and the rise of a religiously devout segment of the military -- the Church Militant in battle-dress uniforms. This last is a subtext worth a book in itself, for it gives the American military great strengths but also, perhaps, some limitations, particularly in a conflict saturated with religion.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400061326/qid=1135715514/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3988474-7827835?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

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Thought this was interesting. Not that I believe bush is actually reading this book, but the actual movers/shakers in the administration probably are.

The President is also busy learning a new language because, as Duffy puts it "bush is really interested in learning other languages since he has mastered the english language". He has also been seen on the phone talking to "regular working class people" because he is well known to be one who cares deeply for the hard working middle-class people of the country.

I mean, I can understand lying about the big things that are connected with lawbreaking, but this is just lying for lying's sake. He and his cronies are absolutely compulsive.:eyes:

the little guy has to be with Bush, poor thing.

on a filthy pig

Wow! Who'da thunk it!

I wonder who does the voiceover of Skippy, the Wonder Marine?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400061326/102-5420757-7945739?v=glance&n=283155

From Publishers Weekly
America is no less an imperial power than Britain and Rome in their times, claims veteran journalist Kaplan (Balkan Ghosts, etc.)—one that is backed by the same sort of enforcers. To illustrate, he travels to seven nations and describes how American troops are, if not ruling the world, working to persuade it to follow our lead. The author joins elite units (generally marines or special forces) sent to shore up friendly governments, win people's hearts, train security forces and defeat terrorism—an increasingly vague term that includes narco-guerrillas, local warlords, unruly tribes and criminal gangs. Living among working soldiers, Kaplan makes no secret of his admiration for their camaraderie, practicality and rational if politically incorrect views. All roll their eyes when our leaders proclaim that defeating terrorism requires democratic governments; according to Kaplan, they believe this is nonsense in Colombia, Kenya, Yemen and the Philippines—all democracies. Forbidden to fight in these countries, Americans are building infrastructure and gathering intelligence as they instruct local units, hoping American-trained leaders will eventually rise to positions of authority. Military buffs will prefer the chapters on Iraq and Afghanistan, where the soldiers are slugging it out. Stabilizing all these nations may take decades, these men and women say—except in Iraq, where it may take longer.

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Kaplan sometimes asserts and sometimes tries to argue for the inevitability of an American Empire. And here, in his strategic analysis -- an enterprise that he thinks is usually done by sissy elitists -- his views are less certain. While the tone of Imperial Grunts is generally as optimistic as that of the can-do sergeants and majors he describes, a more somber tone occasionally intrudes when he considers the vastness of their nation-building mission: "The task that the U.S. appeared to have in both Yemen and Colombia was similar. And it was similarly impossible: to make countries out of places that were never meant to be countries." Indeed, the most successful stories that he has to offer are also the most limited: the maverick lieutenant colonel who has learned how to fit in with the Mongolian military, the major who thought that the post-Sept. 11 training mission in the Philippines was to develop Westernized officers in that country's military and make some useful contacts among its elites.

Maybe commander bunnypants really does have an interest, trying to get a sneak peak at how he thinks historians will see him.

what a freakin' dimwit

...much less a whole book. they are so desperate. it's really kind of funny! lol

Avid asshole is more like it.

You know, real light reading...just take ya a few minutes, Mr. pResident...here's your copies of USSID 18 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Pay real close attention to the parts where it says you're not supposed to tap Americans' phones...